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faint voice

? It's been twelve hours alr

ut I managed to open my eyes

y head, and I slowly raised my right han

. The pain was sti

on my hand and heard that

d her eyes

pry my eyes open once more, and once agai

me it wasn't as intense. Gathering all

You'r

itedly. It was only then I realized-she was

caught in my throat as memories from

in a hospital room. A doctor stood

id in an aged voice. I could o

ks with her warm, brown hands. "At one point, I thought you'd n

by the weight of her words. How co

for more than two hours. Every time I closed my e

about?" Eva asked, sm

pulling myself away fro

where I was last

So I ran there-and found you lying on the ground like a cold corpse," Eva said, sm

t that hour?" She stared into my eyes, l

real reason I went to that bridge.

et some fresh air," I said

now when I got

ask me to come with you?" she

o bother you," I

"As if I ev

y now. That's what matters most,"

ed through me. She had no idea what I

ywhere," I said, forcing a smile. I

t was all the confirmati

u won't be coming in to work for a week,"

y mouth ha

id. It was only then I realized I

. "I told him you fainted from stress a

pond, but she gently pla

Don't say anything." She remo

t y

ou'll hurt your lips if you

and stay

e for a while, so I can keep

someone who cared...

and take care of you, o

ed in

to the doctor, who was still sil

r? The one I asked you to wait on until she woke

ctor too. What was

The tension building inside me eased sli

" he said, the

ng an envelope and handed it to me-but

e," she said with a mischievo

lly, my heart thuddi

ulling out a neatly f

ered, closing her eyes for

slowly opened her eyes a

ed in an instant-fro

ed the paper from her

yes landed on i

. was even gre

elieve what

the h